Attitudes to the Welsh Language, II

Posted on 18 December 2016 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

In this second of two pieces about attitudes to the Welsh language, I will, as promised, look at attitudes across different levels of Welsh-language competence, and among supporters of the different political parties. Our Welsh Election Study surveys asked respondents about their level of competence in the Welsh language. We used quite a simple question
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Attitudes to the Welsh Language, I

Posted on 11 December 2016 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

As I’ve mentioned previously, in this year’s Welsh Election Study voter surveys we covered a lot of ground. The core business of the surveys was to understand whether people had voted; if so for whom they had voted; and to try to gather some understanding of why they had behaved in the way that they
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Electing a Larger National Assembly

Posted on 5 December 2016 by Professor Roger Awan-Scully

Three years ago, colleagues at the Wales Governance Centre, working alongside the Electoral Reform Society Cymru, published a report advocating a larger National Assembly for Wales. The case they made then is, I think, yet stronger now. While the Assembly may have been adequately sized, at sixty AMs, for its initially very limited powers, it is
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